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Chase has a couple of different offers out there on their Chase Freedom cards – you can read about the extra 1.5x on Chase Freedom Unlimited, but you can also get a 5x grocery store offer on the Freedom Flex as well as the Freedom Unlimited via personal referral. Feel free to leave your links in the comments of this post.
- $200 cashback after $500 spend in 3 months + 5x on grocery stores up to $6k for 12 months
Most bloggers don’t publish these deals because they aren’t affiliate offers so they don’t make us money. However, I think this is definitely a better deal on the Flex and you should at least know about it on the Freedom Unlimited. I also publish THE BEST Deals on cards and keep a spreadsheet you can reference here.
If you want to read more details about either card, check our favorite card page where we list both offers and also detail how we used them in conjunction with the Chase Sapphire Preferred. ( note: you could use them in conjunction with the Chase Sapphire Reserve and Chase Ink Business Preferred in the same way ) to maximize potential redemption value.
You can now use a personal referral link as well as leave your links down below, or on our dedicated Chase referral page.
Chase Freedom Flex
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- Our Referral: Chase FreedomFlex
- How to populate your own Chase Refer A Friend link
- You get $100/10k UR per referral – $500/50k UR max per year
- Offer is $200/20k UR after $500 spend + 5x Gas for 12 months up to $6k
- Amazing new bonus categories – HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS CARD
Chase Freedom Unlimited
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- Our Referral: Chase Freedom
- How populate your own Chase Refer A Friend link
- You get $100/10k UR per referral – $500/50k UR max per year
- Offer is $200/20k UR after $500 spend + 5x Gas for 12 months up to $6k
- Amazing new bonus categories
Go here to read about the Chase Freedom product referral offers
Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed or approved by any of these entities.
Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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